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Eiji Okada (13 June 1920 Chōshi, Chiba, Japan – 14 September 1995 Japan) was a Japanese film actor. Okada served in the Japanese army during World War II, and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor.
Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him," in French) in the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959), directed by Alain Resnais, and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes (1964), an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel.
Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theatre company in Japan. He died on September 14, 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.
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Known For
Woman in the Dunes
(1964)
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959)
Lui
Antarctica
(1983)
Ozawa Taicho
Lady Snowblood
(1973)
Gishirō Tsukamoto
The Face of Another
(1966)
The Boss
The Yakuza
(1974)
Tono
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
(1973)
Shogen Wakita
This Transient Life
(1970)
Mori
Hiroshima
(1953)
Kitagawa
Full Filmography
Acting
A Woman's Face
(1949)
White Beast
(1950)
Till We Meet Again
(1950)
Saburo Tajima
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
(1951)
Weeping Doll
(1951)
Ryuji
Karate Sanshiro
(1951)
Mother
(1952)
Shinjiro Hirai
A Ripple in a Morning
(1952)
The Yamabiko School
(1952)
Vacuum Zone
(1952)
Tower of Lilies
(1953)
Teacher Tamai
At the End of the Clouds
(1953)
Hiroshima
(1953)
Kitagawa
A Billionaire
(1954)
Monta
The End of a Day
(1954)
Leutnant Guni Hanata
Here Is a Spring
(1955)
Hirado Pirates
(1955)
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
(1955)
Ensign Asakura
Christ in Bronze
(1955)
Hagiwara Yusa
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
(1956)
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
(1956)
Kogoro Akechi
The Chop Professor
(1956)
Avalanche
(1956)
Five Paths to Revenge
(1956)
Jun Mitani
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
(1957)
Kogoro Akechi
Showdown in Blood
(1957)
The Story of Pure Love
(1957)
The Eleventh Hour
(1957)
Shimano
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
(1957)
Kogoro Akechi
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959)
Lui
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
(1959)
Hawk of the North
(1959)
Shinran, Part II
(1960)
The Pirates
(1960)
Shinzo Murakami
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
(1960)
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
(1960)
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
(1960)
Shinran
(1960)
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
(1961)
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
(1961)
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
(1961)
Festival of Swordsmen
(1961)
Kamio Shume
Restoration Fire
(1961)
Yamanami Keisuke
Rififi in Tokyo
(1963)
Danny Riquet
She and He
(1963)
Eiichi Ishikawa
The Ugly American
(1963)
Deong
The Scent of Incense
(1964)
Nozawa
Assassination
(1964)
Lord Matsudaira
Woman in the Dunes
(1964)
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
The Scarlet Camellia
(1964)
Genjirô Maruume
Sanshiro Sugata
(1965)
Gennosuke / Tesshin
Samurai Spy
(1965)
Tatewaki Koriyama
Japan's Most Chivalrous
(1966)
Shuji Onoda
The Face of Another
(1966)
The Boss
Pretty Devil Yoko
(1966)
Asai
Portrait of Chieko
(1967)
Tsubaki
The X from Outer Space
(1967)
Dr. Kato
The Will to Live
(1967)
Rebellion of Japan
(1967)
The Sands of Kurobe
(1968)
Tattooed Temptress
(1968)
Gambler's Farewell
(1968)
Riichirô Maejima
Devil in My Flesh
(1968)
Secret Information
(1968)
Toru Kijima
Vixen
(1969)
Nobuyuki Ishido
Bullet Wound
(1969)
Records of Bloodshed
(1970)
Seiichiro Machida
Rebel Against Glory
(1970)
This Transient Life
(1970)
Mori
Silence
(1971)
Inoue Chikugonokami
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
(1971)
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
(1971)
(voice)
Red Target
(1972)
Mike Tachibana
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
(1973)
Shogen Wakita
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
(1973)
Shinbei
Lady Snowblood
(1973)
Gishirō Tsukamoto
My Way
(1974)
Lawyer
ESPY
(1974)
Salabad
The Yakuza
(1974)
Tono
Hadashi no seishun
(1975)
I Am a Cat
(1975)
Bunmei
Permanent Blue
(1976)
Cobra 2
(1976)
Kudo
Love in the North
(1976)
Manhunt
(1976)
Lullaby of the Earth
(1976)
Evangelist
Frozen River
(1976)
The Alaska Story
(1977)
Amaohka
The Gate of Youth Part 2
(1977)
Utamaro's World
(1977)
Tanuma
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
(1978)
Take Me Away!
(1978)
Ryunosuke Tamaru
Love and Faith
(1978)
Ankokuji
Blood Type: Blue
(1978)
August without Emperor
(1978)
Assistant General Tokunaga
Lost Love
(1978)
Professor Kamiyama
The Glacier Fox
(1978)
Narrator (voice)
The Strangling
(1979)
Yoshio Morikawa
Dog of Fortune
(1979)
Shuhei Agata
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
(1980)
Magnitude 7.9
(1980)
Professor Watanabe
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
(1980)
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
(1981)
Crazed Fruit
(1981)
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Shi no dangai
(1982)
Antarctica
(1983)
Ozawa Taicho
Praying Mantis
(1983)
Taichi Dôjima
Agi, the Fury of Evil
(1984)
Omi-no-kami
Spring Bell
(1985)
Hachiro Ishimoto
Green Requiem
(1988)
Summer of the Lion Kings
(1991)
Traffic Jam
(1991)
Heat Wave
(1991)
Masakichi Ono
Secret Liaisons
(1995)
The Stairway to the Distant Past
(1995)
White Man